@article{
author = "Jovanov, Vladislav and Shrestha, Shailesh and Hüpkes, Jürgen and Ermes, Markus and Bittkau, Karsten and Knipp, Dietmar",
year = "2014",
abstract = "The influence of film formation on light-trapping properties of silicon thin-film solar cells prepared on randomly textured substrates was studied. Realistic interface morphologies were calculated with a three-dimensional (3D) surface coverage algorithm using the measured substrate morphology and nominal film thicknesses of the individual layers as input parameters. Calculated interface morphologies were used in finite-difference time-domain simulations to determine the quantum efficiency and absorption in the individual layers of the thin-film solar cells. The investigation shows that a realistic description of interface morphologies is required to accurately predict the light-trapping properties of randomly textured silicon thin-film solar cells.",
publisher = "The Japan Society of Applied Physics",
journal = "Applied Physics Express",
title = "Influence of film formation on light-trapping properties of randomly textured silicon thin-film solar cells",
volume = "7",
number = "8",
pages = "082301",
doi = "10.7567/APEX.7.082301"
}